Posts from the ‘web 2.0’ Category

can’t say i’ve used too many of them but i’ve tried backlink banzai for 3 months … $200 in a garbage. i would say it’s a scam: i’ve had 20 urls setup with different keyword settings (from 1 to 5 per url). i’ve also tried different “saturation” methods (anti panda method). NOTHING

one of my keywords moved from 100 to 40s, but honestly out of 20 url i’ve had there … just a fluke, that had nothing to do with backlink

good link building

on the other hand is wonderful. had lots of success with low to medium and even some high competition keywords.

so i’ve re-discovered podcasting recently: 1st on my iPod classic & recently on a nicer, bigger screen – iPhone. but good music podcasts are very hard to find on iTunes … well, it just takes a while (took me few months to go through all the garbage & find this one).

those guys really do it for the love – not only every month or so they come up with the new “radio episode”, this podcast is one of the better organized ones: it has the name, title of the artist, ablum cover, etc. THEN … you can go to their website & … download each of the songs featured on their episodes, either via iTunes, napster – legal chanells OR … for free. those guys rock (they also have live DJ sessions in california). & … when i offered a donation, they suggested to donate to my fav charity … maaaan

But this is a review of the newcomer to online streaming video website – cheap alternative for poor TV stations, who can’t afford to come up with their own flash video player app. :)

Apply for beta here … if you must, but you can find most of the shows worth watching on free TV online or Online Video Guide(long names, but they have most of TV shows & gear search engine for TV episodes and movies).
The quality on Hulu is about the same as youtube. The in the middle of 20 minute long (or so) clips, you’ll see 3-4 short TV ads. Weird but bearable – finally you can watch the whole thing without looking too hard for it … with exception of the last ad after the episodes finished – very annoying.

– ability of embedding is kida interesting at this point … it allows you to embed the videos on other websites _without_ a password requirement … mixed message there (or a glitch :).

Great service for now and it’s good to see more legal on-line video services pop-up. Let’s just hope that in the long term this site won’t become paid service.

love da g mail. but tonight out of blue i started noticing … cheap MicroSoft (Shaft) like enhancements to the fine product …

– the middle column width shrunk (that end up being just the window re-size / un -hybernate glitch)
– new mouse over contact info boxes … that don’t go away
– reply stooped automatically scrolling down to reply / compose box (something i took for granted since the beginning …)
– and finally the waisted top margin real estate w/ “Copyright 2002-2007 Google Inc.”
– some old messages don’t want to load (this has been happening for a while now … though)

To be fair there’s some good: 5GB of storage! and you can _still_ click “older version” … the question is for how long …
[update most of those bugs have been fixed … wow :) ]

Blah, blah, blah. I still don't get why would dell fight so hard for a dying pc market. Further, I don't get how pc market gets away with charging more then $200 per "dumb" desktop. Then again corps are not in a rush to buy $600 Mac minis ... To summarize, sounds like a scam to me ....